Been playing with Ruby on Rails for awhile and decided to take a look through the actual source. Grabbed the repo from GitHub and started looking around. Came across some code that I am not sure what it does or what it references.
I saw this code in actionmailer/test/abstract_unit.rb
root = File.expand_path('../../..', __FILE__)
begin
require "#{root}/vendor/gems/environment"
rescue LoadError
$:.unshift("#{root}/activesupport/lib")
$:.unshift("#{root}/actionpack/lib")
end
lib = File.expand_path("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../lib")
$:.unshift(lib) unless $:.include?('lib') || $:.include?(lib)
require 'rubygems'
require 'test/unit'
require 'action_mailer'
require 'action_mailer/test_case'
Can someone tell me what the $: (a.k.a. “the bling”) is referencing?
$:is the global variable used for looking up external files.From https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.2/globals_rdoc.html